Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel (29 November 1959-) was Senior Advisor to the President from 20 January 1993 to 7 November 1998 (preceding Doug Sosnik), a member of the US House of Representatives (D-IL 5) from 3 January 2003 to 2 January 2009 (succeeding Rod Blagojevich and preceding Mike Quigley), White House Chief of Staff from 20 January 2009 to 1 October 2010 (succeeding Joshua Bolten and preceding Pete Rouse), and Mayor of Chicago from 16 May 2011 to 20 May 2019 (succeeding Richard M. Daley and preceding Lori Lightfoot).

Biography
Rahm Israel Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, and he worked on Paul Simon's 1984 US Senate campaign and became national campaign director for the Democratic National Committee in 1988. After directing the finance committee for Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign, he joined his administration as the first Senior Advisor to the President, but he resigned in 1998 to enter the private sector. In 2002, he was elected to the gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich's vacant US House of Representatives seat, and he chaired the House Democratic Caucus from 2007 to 2009. From 2008 to 2010, he served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama, a fellow Chicagoan Democrat, but he resigned to run for Mayor of Chicago, winning with 55% of the vote. In 2015, he defeated Chuy Garcia to win re-election. During his tenure, he was criticized as being a "mayor for the rich", as, while school test scores rose, he closed down schools in economically-troubled neighborhoods of the city. Chicago's downtown area boomed as crime levels generally dropped, but they rose in the poorer parts of the city. After the 2015 CPD shooting of Laquan McDonald (who was wielding a knife, but walking away from the police officers as they tried to arrest him), a failed attempt to cover-up video evidence of the shooting, and the city's failure to launch an investigation, Emanuel's approval rating plunged into the low 20s. In October 2017, he decided to run for a third term, but, in September 2018, he announced that he would no longer run for re-election due to personal obligations.